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The library is a space for you and your students to use as you need and for the purposes you need. Want help teaching citations, researching, video editing, transferring files, specific tech tools, etc? The library is the place for you. Need extra space for a project or recording? The library is the place to come. Looking for resources and not sure where to go? Stop in the library and ask.

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Staff & Students must sign in with their school Google account to access the information due to usernames and passwords that are included in the document.

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A sign in using your school Google is necessary to access our paid accounts.

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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A variety of different tech tools that can be used by both staff and students.

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Grade 5-8 Device Take-Home Student Presentation

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Capturing student work with digital portfolios

One of the great ways you can use Book Creator is to set up a portfolio for students at the start of the year, to capture their progress. Doing this at the start of the year will save you a lot of effort later on!

You have a few options to consider when thinking about how to set up for creating portfolios. Depending on how many libraries you have in your Book Creator account, you could consider:

1 library per student

1 book per student

1 section in a book per student

You might also want to use this remixable digital portfolio template to give you a big headstart!

Configuring your libraries

Remember, if you're on the free plan, you'll only have 1 library so you'll need to be strategic about how you manage the 40 books allocation. But if you or your school has paid for a subscription, you'll have unlimited libraries on the 1,000 book plan.

So, at the start of the year, decide how you want to configure your libraries. You might set up a class library, or divide libraries into different subjects or grades, or create a library for a specific project.

Remember your My Books library allocation is separate, so use that for your draft books or other personal work.

Setting up collaboration

Speaking of collaboration, the power of Book Creator really comes alive when students work together.

If you're on a paid plan, you have access to real-time collaboration - just turn on the setting in your library. You could partner up students, or have the whole class working on one book. (Tip: that's also a good time to highlight good digital citizenship and why you don't delete other people's work!).

Don't forget to take advantage of our 14-day free trial for our real-time collaboration feature!

Foster Digital Citizenship

The start of the year is always a good time to introduce digital citizenship, and Book Creator can help with this. As you introduce the features of Book Creator, talk about why it's important to use a safe search for images, and why it's better to use copyright free images and how to properly cite them.

You can discuss what information is ok or not to share when publishing books online, and why you it's important to respect each other's work when collaborating on books together.

If you're looking for curriculum resources for teaching digital citizenship - we have just the thing! We partnered with Common Sense Education to bring you these three educational activity books.

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Back to School with Book Creator - Book Creator app

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Capturing student work with digital portfolios One of the great ways you can use Book Creator is to set up a portfolio for students at the start of the year, to capture their progress. Doing this at the start of the year will save you a lot of effort later on!

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Open a world of reading. Try Sora, the new reading app for students, by OverDrive.

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Welcome to Mukwonago Area School District

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Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

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COPYRIGHTS:

A copyright is a law that protects the creator's ownership of and control over the work he/she creates.

Common Sense Media - Copyright and Fair Use Animation

If you want to use something that is copyrighted you must:

Check to see who owns it

Get permission to use it

Give credit to the creator

Buy it (when necessary)

Use it responsibly

According to the ConnectSafely website, Fair use is an important part of copyright that allows people to copy or re-use a copyrighted work without the creator's permission in limited ways that are still fair to the creator. Fair use allows limited use of copyrighted work without permission for purposes such as:

Commentary

Education

Parody

Creation of new work that uses someone else's work in a new way

Fair use guidelines are not black and white but ConnectSafely lists the following criteria you can use to work from:

1. You use the original for a new purpose such as commentary, news reporting, criticism, or education, or to create a new work that transforms the original by adding new expression. For example, using a whole song in a school project - an educational purpose - would generally be fair use. However, it might not qualify as fair use if the student wanted to expand the purpose by publishing the project to potentially a large online audience.

2. The original you want to use is primarily informative or factual in nature, as opposed to highly creative. (But, courts often give this factor less weight than the others, so highly creative works can still be subject to fair use when other factors point that direction.)

3. Where possible, you use only a small portion of the other person's work and only as much as you need to make your point - such as a single paragraph from a much longer text or a short clip from a much longer video. In some cases, it is still fair use if you need a whole creative work, like a whole video or song, but in general, the more you use the less likely it is to be fair use.

4. Your use won't be able to replace the original in the marketplace - the owner/artist would still be able to distribute their work as they choose. Put another way: buyers looking for the original would not be satisfied with accessing your work instead. If your use could undermine the creator's ability to sell or make money from the work, it's less likely to be fair use.

A creative commons license allows work to be used for free as long as you give credit to the creator.

Still not quite sure? Go to the ConnectSafely website about copyright or check out this quick-guide for teachers and students below:

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(Image: https://www.resourcesforlife.com/docs/item6247) In our digital world, it is important to be able to protect our own work as well as use others' copyrighted work without permission. Students are accessing large amounts of information, reworking it, and sharing it with others not only in the classroom but also around the world.

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Students have the option of participating in the middle grade Battle of the Books statewide competition. Information and book lists are included on their site.

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Welcome to a fun and learning intensive experience! BOB is a statewide reading challenge at three levels (elementary 4-6, middle 6-8, and high school 9-12.) Students read books deeply so that they retain information about plot, character, theme, setting, and other elements.

20 book list for students to read and discuss as you choose

Students work in teams of 2, 3, or 4.

A Moodle site for students & advisors to practice and share ideas

A culminating statewide, online "battle" to find the teams who know the books the best

Register your team(s)

Buy the books. List available June 1st.

Let students read, read, read!

Practice on the Moodle site (all questions are in the following format: Q: In what book does a boy find out he is the son of powerful wizards? A: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

Why?

To build love of reading

To encourage students to read books they might not have chosen

To engage students in an academic team competition

To connect schools and teachers across the state

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Welcome to a fun and learning intensive experience! BOB is a statewide reading challenge at three levels (elementary 4-6, middle 6-8, and high school 9-12.) Students read books deeply so that they retain information about plot, character, theme, setting, and other elements.

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**Note - Times on the calendar don't always match up with class periods, please note the class periods that will be used. Ex. Kelly - 1,3,5 would mean the library is used by Mrs. Kelly periods 1,3, & 5, but it would be available 7th period.